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Original poster

Delete friend on Facebook because she has gone to disney without kids again!

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chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 19:25

Everytime I see her latest post about what fun she is having it gets me annoyed! Ok bit of background info, she has two children age 7 and age 8, she is currently in florida on her honeymoon. She also went last year with her partner without the children. Am I the only one that thinks this is awful?
Fair enough go on holiday without your children, but disney world?

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Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:07

Well said Candy especially Disney, glad to see you're on side Smile

wobblyweebles · 07/04/2014 21:07

Loads of people go to Disney without kids.

There are loads of other things to do in Orlando too, with or without kids.

SirChenjin · 07/04/2014 21:07

All parents take note: going to Disney (twice) without your kids is weird.

mum11970 · 07/04/2014 21:08

My dh and I went to alton towers and stayed in the hotel without taking our kids. Thank god my teenagers don't hate me forever for doing it. Get a flamin grip.

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:10

Alton Towers is not Disney, there's no comparison. Your teenagers were probably glad to see the back of you and have the house to themselves for the night.

KateShmate · 07/04/2014 21:12

YANBU OP, I do think it's strange - it's not like her children are really young and they wouldn't actually be able to enjoy it.. 7 and 8 are perfect ages!
It's like going to Peppa Pig World for the day without taking your Pig-obsessed toddler?!

ThePinkOcelot · 07/04/2014 21:12

YANBU. I wouldn't want to go anywhere like that without my children. Why would you?

Mintyy · 07/04/2014 21:13

Bit of an eye opener this thread for me!

candycoatedwaterdrops · 07/04/2014 21:14

I hate this judgement that adults shouldn't want to go to places like Disney. It's not just for children; plenty of adult rides and it's not all families there.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 07/04/2014 21:15

It's not like Peppa Pig world. Hmm Unless Peppa Pig world has space mountain and thunder mountain?

Mintyy · 07/04/2014 21:20

Oh Candy, just forget about what people think about adults going to Disney without children then for a moment.

Consider

  1. going without your children who are the perfect age for it and
  1. doing it twice

Why will you not concede that this is odd?

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chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 21:22

Ok I asked my nine year olds sons opinion, and his answer was 'why would anyone do that'.

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chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 21:23

Be interested to hear your childrens opinions

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Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:23

I asked my 7 year old and she said "but I would miss you" and started crying Sad

adoptmama · 07/04/2014 21:24

disneyweddings.disney.go.com/honeymoons/magical-places/disneyworld/landing

clearly the OPs soon to be ex-friend and her new husband will not be the only child-free honeymooners at Disney Wink

perhaps Disney means something special to them
perhaps they intend to take the kids every year in future
perhaps they wanted one special holiday themselves as newly weds

I'm just really Confused that so many people feel so strongly that it is wrong for a newly wed woman to go on holiday or honeymoon with her husband (twice!!) to Disney. Clearly they really like Disney! Perhaps the OP, instead of publically slating her 'friend' on a well-trafficked forum could simply have posted on her fb and asked her nicely why she likes Disney so much.

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:25

This actually reminds me of my parents a couple of years ago telling me about neighbours who were going and how much they were looking forward to it. I said "what about the kids?" My Mum just looked blankly at me, she hadn't even thought of them. And that's because my Mum is proven selfish twat of many years standing.

SirChenjin · 07/04/2014 21:28

Just asked the 7 year old.

He said "I think you would be a bad Mummy and Daddy".
I asked "why?"
He said "because it would make me sad if you went and left us, because we want to go there"

The 14 year old, who was hovering, said "I think you would have to be very selfish to do that. Has someone on MN done that?"

Pimpf · 07/04/2014 21:28

Op, it is your business because.....?

Cobain · 07/04/2014 21:28

I remember my DD being upset that I had been even after I explained that it was before she was born, she asked "why didn't I wait". In her defence she was only four.

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chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 21:28

Oh no sparklysilversequins, I feel responsible..sorry xx

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SarniaCherie · 07/04/2014 21:29

I have no problem with adults going on their own to Disney.
I do however think it is really mean, meany mean to go without your children who've never been. YANBU.

mum11970 · 07/04/2014 21:29

My teenagers are not that old that they got the house to themselves, they got my mother and my 9 year old.

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chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 21:31

See...children know where I'm coming from on this

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Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:32

Don't worry chocolate she's a sensitive soul and I wouldn't have her any other way Smile

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chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 21:32

Pimpf, it really is absolutely none of my business

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